insubordination

He stands accused of corruption, money-laundering, gross misconduct, insubordination and bullying public officers and six other acts of wrongdoing.

What the personnel had done merited not merely reassignment or discharge, but potentially a court martial for deliberately rendering themselves undeployable, endangering other service members, gross insubordination and possibly even mutiny, as it was an organized action against their unit.

Truman fired MacArthur for his insubordination, at some political risk.

And last week, Mike Lee, Sonoma State University’s president, retired after the California State University’s chancellor said that an announcement about an agreement he had made with pro-Palestinian protesters was “sent without the appropriate approvals” and an act of “insubordination.”

The chancellor called the agreement “insubordination.”